From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HOWTO use udev to manage /dev
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:46:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040219194610.GB13934@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402191933350.26894-100000@phoenix.infradead.org>
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 07:36:07PM +0000, James Simmons wrote:
>
> Here is a question for you. Presently both the serial ttys and VT ttys
> share the same major number. Minor number 1 to 63 is allocated to the VTs
> and 64 and above to serial ttys. One of the great limitations for my home
> system is that I can have only 63 VTs. Can udev work around this
> limitation?
udev can create different /dev nodes for these devices. But as udev
does not modify the kernel code at all, it can not "solve" the
duplication of numbers in the kernel at all. Nor is it meant to.
Hope this helps,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-19 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-19 18:59 [ANNOUNCE] udev 018 release Greg KH
2004-02-19 19:13 ` Greg KH
2004-02-20 12:48 ` Michael Buesch
2004-02-20 23:56 ` Greg KH
2004-02-19 19:16 ` HOWTO use udev to manage /dev Greg KH
2004-02-19 19:36 ` James Simmons
2004-02-19 19:46 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-02-19 20:21 ` James Simmons
2004-02-19 20:28 ` Greg KH
2004-02-20 0:52 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-02-20 23:57 ` Greg KH
2004-02-19 21:35 ` James Simmons
2004-02-19 22:22 ` Frédéric L. W. Meunier
2004-02-19 22:25 ` Frédéric L. W. Meunier
2004-02-19 23:07 ` Greg KH
2004-02-19 23:46 ` Frédéric L. W. Meunier
2004-02-19 23:56 ` Greg KH
2004-02-20 0:51 ` Frédéric L. W. Meunier
2004-02-20 1:09 ` Frédéric L. W. Meunier
2004-02-20 1:54 ` Greg KH
2004-02-20 2:28 ` Frédéric L. W. Meunier
2004-02-20 7:44 ` Frédéric L. W. Meunier
2004-02-21 17:42 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-02-22 0:30 ` Frédéric L. W. Meunier
2004-02-21 17:20 ` [ANNOUNCE] udev 018 release Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-02-24 1:49 ` Greg KH
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